http://15people.net/?p=84 Adventures of a Shoegaze Cellist Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:08:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://15people.net/?p=84#comment-35587 15 People » Blog Archive » Welcome, Disquieters! Wed, 28 May 2008 13:18:48 +0000 http://15people.net/?p=84#comment-35587 [...] If you’ve come to my blog via today’s post in Disquiet, welcome! There’s plenty of cello-riffic content for you to peruse, including the following: Live Set 5-21-08, Cello demo tracks, Holiday Drone. [...] [...] If you’ve come to my blog via today’s post in Disquiet, welcome! There’s plenty of cello-riffic content for you to peruse, including the following: Live Set 5-21-08, Cello demo tracks, Holiday Drone. [...]

]]> http://15people.net/?p=84#comment-35574 Disquiet » Live Cello-Tronic MP3 Wed, 28 May 2008 11:30:54 +0000 http://15people.net/?p=84#comment-35574 [...] From David Darling to Hank Roberts to Zoe Keating, the cello has suggested itself as a focus of electronic manipulation, no doubt due to its rich, deep sonorousness. Laderas uses electronics not simply to enhance the cello’s sound, but to obscure it. (He has christened this technique he’s developed as the Oo-ray.) If you dive midway into the May 21 performance, recorded at the space Holocene, you may take it to be one of those multi-guitar Glenn Brance symphonies. There is a searing noise, as if the bow’s edge were serrated. It’s hard to tell when the texture of that bow ends and the saw waves of whatever electronic processing is involved kick in (MP3). The performance is not just about generating cacophony, though; it veers from layered plucking of strings to orchestral might, from sour melodic activity to gently bowed divination. In a post on his 15people.net site, Laderas describes his mode succinctly: “As always, this set is pretty much completely improvised on the fly. No prerendered loops, no nothing. Just me and my looper.” [...] [...] From David Darling to Hank Roberts to Zoe Keating, the cello has suggested itself as a focus of electronic manipulation, no doubt due to its rich, deep sonorousness. Laderas uses electronics not simply to enhance the cello’s sound, but to obscure it. (He has christened this technique he’s developed as the Oo-ray.) If you dive midway into the May 21 performance, recorded at the space Holocene, you may take it to be one of those multi-guitar Glenn Brance symphonies. There is a searing noise, as if the bow’s edge were serrated. It’s hard to tell when the texture of that bow ends and the saw waves of whatever electronic processing is involved kick in (MP3). The performance is not just about generating cacophony, though; it veers from layered plucking of strings to orchestral might, from sour melodic activity to gently bowed divination. In a post on his 15people.net site, Laderas describes his mode succinctly: “As always, this set is pretty much completely improvised on the fly. No prerendered loops, no nothing. Just me and my looper.” [...]

]]> http://15people.net/?p=84#comment-34814 hecanjog Thu, 22 May 2008 22:20:41 +0000 http://15people.net/?p=84#comment-34814 Excellent! Downloading right now. :-) Excellent! Downloading right now.

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